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subota, 23.10.2010.

Even if you answered "no" to all of the above questions, if you are encountering drinking-related problems with your job, relationships, health, or with the law, you should still seek professional help.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Memory feeds imagination.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

So, sometime ago I suddenly fell ill.

I'd learned my lesson.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

The importance of home is depicted in languages of all the nations: we say "East or West, home is best ", the English say "My home is my castle".

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

In the British homes there has been no central heating up till recently.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Hoover in 1928 marked the first time since the end of Reconstruction that the party had carried states of the old Confederacy; this came about chiefly because the Democratic candidate, Alfred E. Smith, was a Roman Catholic and an opponent of prohibition.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Our lives teach us who we are.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

The hands behind me gave me another shove.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

srijeda, 20.10.2010.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
No.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

The Great Barrier Reef on the coast of Queensland is a garden under the sea.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

The party, however, suffered a series of massive setbacks with the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew upon his conviction for tax evasion and revelations of major White House involvement in the Watergate affair, which led finally to the resignation

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

utorak, 19.10.2010.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

They are also ready to give all necessary information.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

In 1960, an incumbent Vice President, Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president for the first time since 1836.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Is there life before death?
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

Another famous street is Broadway.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

With support and treatment, many individuals are able to stop drinking and rebuild their lives.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

You will see too small groups of children pulling round in a home made cart, a figure that looks something like a man but consists of an old suit of clothes, stuffed with straw.

You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

nedjelja, 17.10.2010.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

When should a person seek help for a problem related to his or her drinking?

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Our lives teach us who we are.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Art is science made clear.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.

In Britain the choice of films is limited to young people.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Because of this division, the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, was elected President and, narrowly reelected in 1916 over Charles Evans Hughes , he served through World War I.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Only a half of million people live in Tasmania, and a large part of the island is still covered with wild, beautiful wild forests.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

I hate being disturbed when a film is on. If I like a movie very much I go to see it a second time and besides I see many of the movies televised.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

He was widely lauded for his role in orchestrating the coalition of forces against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
So little time and so little to do.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

A smiling face is half the meal.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Each body has its art...
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

This information will explain alcoholism and alcohol abuse, symptoms of each, when and where to seek help, treatment choices, and additional helpful resources.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Who were these clowns?

The cries of encore sounded all over the theatre.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

In 1964 the conservative wing of the party engineered the nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater , who was, however, defeated in a landslide by Lyndon B. Johnson.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Acknowledging that help is needed for an alcohol problem may not be easy.

People fail forward to success.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Vigorous writing is concise.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Yesavage and Leirer (20) found evidence of impairment 14 hours after pilots reached blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) of between 0.10 percent and 0.12 percent.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

It's celebrated on the 25-th of december.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

You may think for example, that you would like a job which involves organizing people, but liking such a job is not a sufficient justification if experience you already may have suggests that this is not your strong point.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

The importance of home is depicted in languages of all the nations: we say "East or West, home is best ", the English say "My home is my castle".

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

I think that nowdays this profession is of great need and importance to our country.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

On the other hand, you should remember that training willl equip you to do new things.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

This description of alcoholism helps us understand why most alcoholics can't just "use a little willpower" to stop drinking.

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
People fail forward to success.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

četvrtak, 14.10.2010.

When the sun shines, the air of the Blue Mountains is a real, beautiful blue.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Ultimately his policies and attempts to implement them antagonized his supporters among the moderate Republicans and paved the way for the triumph of the radicals in the congressional elections of 1866.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Agatha Christie created two major characters for her stories.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

The air above the forest contains millions of microscopic drops of eucalyptus oil.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.

While alcohol abuse is basically different from alcoholism, it is important to note that many effects of alcohol abuse are also experienced by alcoholics.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

The average person thinks he isn't.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

In particular, you can answer to important questions.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Maybe they were terrorists!

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Never eat more than you can lift.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Many larger mammals such as bear, wolf have been hunted to extinction, others are now protected by law.

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

But anyways whatever you like you should remember words of wisdom which say that we eat to live, but not live to eat.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

A lack of state financing in social programs has caused further tightening in the labor market, particularly for women.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

"Gulliver's travels was one of the greatest works of the period of the Enlightment in world literature.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Naltrexone is the first medication approved in 45 years to help alcoholics stay sober after they detoxify from alcohol.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

The scientific method of analyzing data and establishing hypotheses, a vital concomitant of academic freedom, was initiated during the Enlightenment , mainly by scholars outside university life such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Voltaire.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.

When used in combination with counseling, this drug lessens the craving for alcohol in many people and helps prevent a return to heavy drinking.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
History is more or less bunk.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Their numerous facilities include both: large and small cocktail barber's shops and conference halls, equipped with simultaneous, multilingual translation systems.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

utorak, 12.10.2010.

The cakes were round like the full moon and lit with tapers.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
I am not young enough to know everything.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Whiskey [from the Gaelic for "water of life"], spirituous liquor distilled from a fermented mash of grains, usually rye, barley, oats, wheat, or corn.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

79 shot stories, 4 non-fiction ones and 19 plays were written by that strange woman.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

All books are arranged in alphabetical order.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

You can any types of food in restaurants ? you can try homemade cakes, beefsteaks, pasta and macaroni and others.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
All the world's a cage.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

With the election, however, Republican domination of the South and radical rule of the party were definitely ended.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Who were these clowns?
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Keep cool and you command everybody.

We all know how tragic the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

Now there are many books in the shops.

Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

A book is one of the greatest wonders of the world.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Most of big cities of G.B.,especially London, are decorated with coloured lights and cristmas trees.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

For a man of such great significance to the world of mathematics, little is known about his actual life.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

I can eat it anytime and anywhere.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A poem is no place for an idea.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

I am not young enough to know everything.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

I personally appreciate such people and I believe that happiness is to live your life, to enjoy every day of your life, to be glad to every minute and to receive with thanks everything that life offers you.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I didn't even breathe.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

In ancient times books were written by hand.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Well done is better than well said.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Each volume begins with pages of definitions and postulates, followed by his theorems.

So little time and so little to do.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

They weren't wearing insignia.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
My home is not a place, it is people.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.

I never know how much of what I say is true.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Australia is sometimes called ?the lucky country?.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Never eat more than you can lift.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Nowadays people who go on business mostly travel by air as it is the fastest means of travelling.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

In England the cinema is usually called ?the pictures?.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
My friends are my estate.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

When I was fifteen I was fond of reading too.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Each body has its art...
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

ponedjeljak, 11.10.2010.

Supervision.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

My mother told me to stay in bed, then she called for a doctor.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

These books excite my imagination. I think I devote much time to reading.

No.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Memory feeds imagination.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Who were these clowns?
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

The Highlands with thin soil are largely moorland with heather and grasses.

A joke's a very serious thing.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Do you want to develop new ideas and initiate changes.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

nedjelja, 10.10.2010.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

It?s beautiful place, with parks, lakes, big open streets and fine buildings.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

You may think for example, that you would like a job which involves organizing people, but liking such a job is not a sufficient justification if experience you already may have suggests that this is not your strong point.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Theatrical perfomances are given by theatre companies.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
People fail forward to success.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.

The conservatives, skillfully guided by national chairman Marcus A. Hanna , won with William McKinley in 1896 and 1900, and under such leaders as Nelson W. Aldrich , Thomas B. Reed , Joseph G. Cannon , Thomas C. Platt , and Matthew S. Quay , the party pro

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

The trees begin to blossom. Sometimes it drizzles, but there are no rough winds; the sun shines brightly.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

She wanted to give me some aspirin tablets too, but there weren't any in our house.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I stand in awe of my body.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

The frustrated Republicans were never able to break the remarkable hold of Roosevelt and the New Deal on the electorate and regularly went down to defeat every four years, with Alfred M. Landon (1936), Wendell Willkie (1940), and Thomas E. Dewey (1944).

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

The most of Australia is a semi-desert so most people in Australia live in South - East.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

When you are taken away by a thrilling plot and by author's vivid imagination or by his humorous remarks or by the way he portrays people, you can't help reading the book from cover to cover, when the life of a literary character is similar to yours, you

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Love truth, and pardon error.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

I usually take books from school library.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

During a normal summer the temperature sometimes rises above 30 degrees in the south.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

As one of my friends says if you are not a handicapped person you are a really lucky and happy one.

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
All things are difficult before they are easy.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Nowadays people who go on business mostly travel by air as it is the fastest means of travelling.

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

subota, 09.10.2010.

But risk is not destiny. Just because alcoholism tends to run in families doesn't mean that a child of an alcoholic parent will automatically develop alcoholism.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Any reluctance you may feel about discussing your drinking with your health care professional may stem from common misconceptions about alcoholism and alcoholic people. In our society, the myth prevails that an alcohol problem is somehow a sign of moral w

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.

But be, as you have been, my happiness...

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Usually such people keep the poultry and the cattle.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
He who laughs, lasts!
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

How does it differ from alcohol abuse?

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
They can conquer who believe they can.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Well done is better than well said.

This new knowledge will help identify individuals at high risk for alcoholism and also will pave the way for the development of new treatments for alcohol-related problems.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
My home is not a place, it is people.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

A less clearly developed corollary of academic freedom is the obligation of all those who enjoy it to pursue the line of open and thorough inquiry regardless of personal considerations.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Female unemployment is rising at a catastrophically high rate.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, char

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

While bills were passed on the key program components, many items were thwarted or defeated in Congress or by the president.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Our lives teach us who we are.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Who were these clowns?
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Do you want to develop new ideas and initiate changes.

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

He is clever, honest and kind to his people.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
So little time and so little to do.
Maybe they were terrorists!
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

In the cultivated areas that make up most of Britain there are many wild flowers, flowering plants and grasses.

I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

The highest buildings are Impure State Building and the united national building.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Some towns on the Murrey still keep the old river boats, and visitors can ride on them.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Walking is man's best medicine.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

He also advocated increased military spending and presided over the largest military buildup during peacetime in American history.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I am not young enough to know everything.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Do you want to be an organizer of other people's activities?

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Or vice versa sometimes a really tasty candy is hidden under very unattractive wrapping paper. The same I can say about people.

They weren't wearing insignia.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

In either case, it is important that you see your doctor or other health care provider right away to discuss your responses to these questions.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
A poem is no place for an idea.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

All movements go too far.

The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

The party did not fair as well in other races for national office, and the Democrats made gains in Congress, although the Republicans retained control there.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

Yet it is important to recognize that aspects of a person's environment, such as peer influences and the availability of alcohol, also are significant influences.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Life is consciousness.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be o

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

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If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
So little time and so little to do.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Female unemployment is rising at a catastrophically high rate.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
An idea is salvation by imagination.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Some of the chapters seem to be written with different styles, and others are geared for different ages, leading one to believe that he inserted other mathematicians' work into his own.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

An even greater environmental threat are nuclear power stations.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

They are very important in the life of English people.Englishman are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

The sky is always dull and overcast and it often rains, so there are pools on roads and cars splash the water on the passers-by.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

The highest buildings are Impure State Building and the united national building.

I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Is there life before death?
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Agatha Christie's favourite way of murdering was by poisoning.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

The influence of literature on people's mind is great.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.

You may think for example, that you would like a job which involves organizing people, but liking such a job is not a sufficient justification if experience you already may have suggests that this is not your strong point.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

? Genetic research: Scientists are now studying 3,000 individuals from several hundred families with a history of alcoholism in order to pinpoint the location of genes that influence vulnerability to alcoholism.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

McKinley through Coolidge

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Despite the fact that birthrates in the country have been falling, children are obstacles in the labor market.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Maybe they were terrorists!
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

utorak, 05.10.2010.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

Treatment may include detoxification (the process of safely getting alcohol out of one's system); taking doctor-prescribed medications, such as disulfiram or naltrexone, to help prevent a return to drinking once drinking has stopped; and individual and/o

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Life is consciousness.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
People fail forward to success.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Bush's high popularity after the Persian Gulf War dropped rapidly, and he lost the 1992 presidential election to the Democrat, Arkansas's Governor Bill Clinton.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Love truth, and pardon error.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Have you ever noticed that some people are always grumbling about their endless problems, dissatisfaction in life and even about the dull weather that annoys them?

Even the best of friends need time apart.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

And even when it gives you hardships and difficulties, it gives you strength to overcome them. Happiness means to live your life in such a way that when retired you have something to remember and to be proud of, some pleasant moments that will always evok

The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Hedgehogs, hares, rabbits, rats and mice are numerous. Deer live in some of the forests in the Highlands of Scotland and England.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

That's why I think over the possibility to live in a cottage when I retire.

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Is there life before death?
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

nedjelja, 03.10.2010.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Whiskey [from the Gaelic for "water of life"], spirituous liquor distilled from a fermented mash of grains, usually rye, barley, oats, wheat, or corn.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.